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The Red Empire

The Red Empire

The Red Empire

2022 1 Seasons 3 Episodes ⭐ 8.0 Documentary War & Politics

The story of an empire: From its founding in 1922 to its dissolution in 1991, the Soviet Union was shaped by revolutionary idealism, but also by oppression and decay. The USSR evolved from Stalinist terror through the Thaw under Khrushchev to political processes such as glasnost and perestroika under Gorbachev. Finally, in 1991, it collapsed.

The story of an empire: From its founding in 1922 to its dissolution in 1991, the Soviet Union was shaped by revolutionary idealism, but also by oppression and decay. The USSR evolved from Stalinist terror through the Thaw under Khrushchev to political processes such as glasnost and perestroika under Gorbachev. Finally, in 1991, it collapsed.

Seasons & Episodes

EP 1

New Man and Great Terror

1922 was the birth year of the Soviet Union. Russia, Belarus, Ukraine, and Transcaucasia united to form the USSR. A comp

EP 2

Great War and New Dreams

The history of the Soviet Union from its entry into the war in 1941 to the end of the 1960s: It tells the story of the s

EP 3

Superpower and Catastrophe

The third part of the documentary series reconstructs the last two decades of the USSR. The revolutionary energy with wh

Popular Cast

Nadja Schulz-Berlinghoff

Nadja Schulz-Berlinghoff

Main narrator (voice)

Max Volkert Martens

Max Volkert Martens

Narrator (voice)

Thomas Dehler

Thomas Dehler

Narrator (voice)